it's been a long labor or love, but i have finally opened my website:www.merryconway.com
as a way to assess and digest what the hell i was ever doing all this time etc. hehehe... feeling lighter and moving on !there's a few more chapters -- one on memory and materialism and one on women's work, but his is what i have got done so far!

Stephanie Brody-Lederman is showing 5 paintings at Projective City, Paris France
Stephanie Brody-Lederman has work in the exhibition "The Voyages of the Oeneironauts," 34 rue Helene Brion, Paris 13e FRANCE
The show is up from Sept 23-Oct 15, 2011

Stephanie Brody-Lederman in
Art=Text=Art:
Works by Contemporary Artists
an exhibition of 72 works of art by 45 artists drawn from the Sally and Wynn Kramarsky Collection
August 17 to October 16, 2011
Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art
University of Richmond Museums, Virginia

17th International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women
October 5th - 15th, Ljubljana, Sloveniawww.cityofwomen.org

In October, the city of Ljubljana will transform into the City of Women. The common denominator for artists hosted in the spirit of this year's festival motto - Abracadabra - is the "magic" of the outlived and non-functional patriarchal patterns, socio-political conventions and moral and ethical norms and values that prefer something more abstract and elusive than an individual human being - namely, the "magical power" of religion, ideology and political beliefs, which can serve to liberate an individual.
A rich festival programme offering everything from concerts, exhibitions, children's programme, dance performances, performances, lectures, workshops, discussion panels and meeting with the artists...

Cary will exhibit "#TrainingYRHuman" a collaborative work created with ecoarttech partner, Leila Nadir, at Emily Carr University's three-day new media exhibition and conference on animal studies, curated and organized by Carol Gigliotti.

Interactive Futures (IF) 2011, November 17-19, presents the theme "Animal Influence" by spotlighting the work of media artists whose work has been influenced by the growing wealth of knowledge on animal behavior, cognition, creativity and consciousness emerging from such fields as ecology, cognitive ethology, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, zoology, and others. These research areas have focused on new understandings of animal life and are helping to shift assumed conventions concerning animal cognition, consciousness, and agency. While the change in human attitudes towards animals has been documented in news media as well as in more academic venues, the idea that animals might possess emotional, moral, cognitive lives is an idea that has been, in the past, either dismissed or associated with metaphorical or symbolic approaches.

For PLATO'S CAVE, EIDIA House founders Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf, FF Alumns, invite fellow artists to create an installation and an accompanying edition for the underground space; PLATO'S CAVE. EIDIA House Studio boldly states that it does not function as an art gallery, but collaborates with the artist to create provocation in art forms, keeping within an ongoing discipline of aesthetic research.

"Buckley1s works operate within an overarching schema entitled The Slaughterhouse Project, which, a bit like Yves Klein blue, is an aesthetic armature, a strategy used for aesthetic infiltration, or infection. As the name implies, the Project is a conceptual device of cauterization, a way of exploring taboos, for investigating political anomalies, for venting dissatisfaction with social injustice." Dr Adam Geczy

Manifest Destiny?
The term Manifest Destiny was first used in the 1800s and was the philosophical basis on which the US expanded 'democratic' institutions across North America. Of course it raises a series of questions about whether these territories and people wished to be annexed by the US. Manifest Destiny? is a text based neon work created especially for Plato's Cave, which continues Buckley's conversation about the larger questions: aesthetics, culture, economics, ideology, power, space, spectatorship, technology and time.

Brad Buckley is an artist, urbanist and Professor of Contemporary Art and Culture at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. He was educated at St Martin's School of Art, London, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the editor, with John Conomos, of Republics of Ideas (2001) and Rethinking the Contemporary Art School: The Artist, the PhD, and the Academy (2009). His work, which operates at the intersection of installation, theatre and performance, investigates questions of cultural control, democracy, freedom and social responsibility. Buckley's work has been included in the 3rd International Biennial (Ljubljana), the 4th Construction in Process (the Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland) and the 9th Biennale of Sydney, and in exhibitions at Franklin Furnace (New York), the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), the Visual Arts Gallery (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and La Chambre Blanche (Quebec). In October 2009, Buckley was a Visiting Scholar at The New School (New York).

For his Plato's Cave edition, Manifest Destiny? is a print edition of eighty (80) with ten (10) artists' proofs using embossed and letterpress text. The edition is printed on 280 gsm Dogget Concept Velum paper. Each print is signed and dated by the artist. http://bradbuckley.com/

'This project was supported by Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney'

What happens when a performing artist survives a near-fatal car accident and collides with the oncoming traffic of Hip Hop culture? In Yo Miss! actress/writer Judith Sloan remixes stories from twenty years of reporting on and teaching immigrant/refugee teenagers and incarcerated youth as they grapple with the cataclysmic global events that shaped them. Through poetry, vivid character portrayals and music, she brings their tales to life along with her own stories revealing the ripple effects of the Holocaust on her family. Sifting through a maze of miscommunications and misunderstandings, Sloan and the musicians battle through a cross-generational dialogue as she finds resilience in the face of tragedy.

A play with music
Written and conceived by Judith Sloan
Directed by and developed with Michael Dinwiddie
Performed by Judith Sloan
with Adam Hill and MiWi LaLupa
Live Sound Engineer: Luke Santy
Music direction: (Grammy Award winner) Frank London
Sound direction and design: Judith Sloan with the company
Lighting design: Melody Beal

Yo Miss is a project of EarSay, produced by Judith Sloan with the purpose of supporting EarSay's social justice work focusing on stories of healing from trauma. A portion of the proceeds from the Yo Miss! theatre project go to benefit EarSay's Youth Education project, Transforming Trauma Into Art, for immigrant and refugee teenagers.
Yo Miss! is being developed with support from Viper Records, and Morgan Jenness from Abrams Agency.

Development of Yo Miss! with support from the Queens Council on the Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Murray Street Productions, Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, and Viper Records.

About Judith Sloan
Teaching, acting, producing - when it comes to exploring the world through the streets of New York, it seems that Judith Sloan has done it all. Known for her collaborative multi-media project [with Warren Lehrer,] Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new america Judith spent 20 years teaching and reporting at schools and jails where she encountered immigration, cultural clashes, and generation gaps. Now, she presents her accounts in a new play Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide. Sloan is an award-winning playwright, radio producer, and performer. Yo Miss is a project of EarSay, a non-profit devoted to portraying uncelebrated stories. Judith's work in Yo Miss! is described as "sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always truth-seeking performance" that "attempts to break down assumptions that divide.... residents of a polygot city who live in close proximity but come from conflicting worlds.

Advance praise for Yo Miss stories produced for public radio:

"This is an art you can trust to tell the truth in vivid detail, and Sloan renews the original mission of radio and writing in the process. These are wonderful sound pieces. They are as full of life and presence as all of Sloan's earlier works." - Andrei Codrescu, poet, novelist, commentator NPR's All Things Considered

About Sweeping Statements by Judith Sloan: winner First Place Missouri Review National Audio Competition, 2008: The essay, "Sweeping Statements," is a first-person author-read accounting of teaching theatre, writing, and juggling in jails and alternative sentencing institutions with incarcerated teenagers. Category judge Jay Allison, of transom.org, says the essay "truly left the page and warranted its existence in sound.

"Judith Sloan's work is exactly what public radio sounds like at its best: unique, amazing, real people's stories that confront tough issues, told with the highest production values, including original music, and a sense of humor." Brian Lehrer, the Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC

famous accordion orchestra - lounge at dixon place - friday 10/14 - 7:30 pm - $5.the famous accordion orchestra will be playing at the Lounge at Dixon Place, on Friday October 14th, at 7:30 pm.
admission is $5.00, which is ridiculously cheap. drinks are available, and also quite reasonable.

we'll play old favorites and maybe some new ones...

The Lounge at Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey.

Rosie's Theater Kids
Harold Rome's "Pins and Needles"
Riki Colon's "Dancing In The Streets"
new work fromThe Abingdon Theatre Company and The Manhattan Theater Club
the hilarious re-workings of Tweed's "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane"

the Blowdryers and the Church Of Betty,
Downtown playwrights David Caudle, Robert I. Rubinsky and Michael W. Small
Drag legends Linda Simpson and Murray Hill
!Badass! Burlesque!
San Francisco's Thrill Peddlers
UNITARD
and
JACKIE FACTORY'S HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR FOR KIDS AND ADULTS
and MUCH MUCH MORE!

Sean Kelly is delighted to announce the opening of a major retrospective tracing the prolific career of Marina Abramović at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia. Originally conceived by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition features approximately fifty works spanning more than four decades of her early interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances along with a new performance installation. The exhibition, titled The Artist is Present, will be on view from October 8th to December 4th, 2011.

As in her retrospective at MoMA in New York last year, which was also curated by Beisenbach, The Artist is Present will present landmark Abramović pieces performed by live 'reperformers' and Abramović herself, alongside video and photographic documentation, sound recordings and objects used in the original performances. The chronological presentation of Abramović's career culminates in a new performance installation, entitled Measuring the Magic of Mutual Gaze, which was conceived specifically for this exhibition and emerged from a close collaboration between the artist and a team of American and Russian scientists. For the interactive installation, Garage visitors are invited to participate in an experiment that measures brain activity when seated opposite one another. The viewing public can observe this activity and will be able to see which areas of the brain are physically stimulated when participants are engaged in thought with each other. The work is reminiscent of Abramović's The Artist is Present (2010), performed at MoMA in New York, in which visitors sat in silence opposite the artist over the course of the exhibition.

For further information on The Artist is Present, please visit: The Garage Center for Contemporary Art

For press inquiries, please contact Maureen Bray at the gallery (212.239.1181) at maureen@skny.com. For all other inquiries, please contact Cécile Panzieri at the gallery (212.239.1181) or at cecile@skny.com.

You are invited to a luxurious day in a magical garden at the edge of the SF Bay to "Merge With Nature: An Ecosensual Experience." Facilitated by me, Annie Sprinkle, and my beloved Beth Stephens, with Lori Grace of the Sunrise Center in Marin.

First we'll meet at Sunrise Center for breakfast treats and a slide show giving you background about what ecosexuality is all about and why it's so awesome. Then we go to a private estate's garden, right on the bay, with heated swimming pool, flowers, goats, extraordinary views, chickens, hot tub, and more. Lori will then guide us all in exploring the Earth as mother archetype. We'll mediate, draw, move. Then you will explore Earth as lover with Beth and I with an ecosex walking tour. We are excited to experiment with juxtaposing these two experiences, and seeing what each gives us. (Kinda like my old Sluts & Goddesses workshops did.)

Come find your e-spot, try 25 ways to make love to the Earth, stimulate your senses. Take an ecosexy walking tour. Learn about sustainable organic gardening, rejuvenate, have fun, heal, get food for thought.
At the end, we'll do a little wedding ceremony where you can marry the Earth, and you will never be lonely again! This is a first of its kind workshop ever!

Its next Sunday!!!! October 9. In Tiberon.
10 am til 6 pm, with an optional pot luck after.
Adults only this time.

A real bargain: $30 if you register by Oct. 6.--$40 after that.
If money is an issue email me and perhaps we'll have some scholarships or trades. annie@anniesprinkle.org

I wanted to let you know about a few upcoming projects I have in October and November. Hope to see you there!

Starting tomorrow:

¡DOMINO! is a social sculpture exploring the manner in which play mediates the link between ritual, community, and identity. Reflecting the victory by Lower East Side residents to have the Parks Department include Domino tables in the Alphabet City Park renovation, I will hold a Domino game from 10 am to 4 pm in front of the Post Office on 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue. on October 2 and 9, from 10am-4pm. ¡DOMINO! is a part of Ritual: Art in Odd Places curated by Trindad Frombella, El Museo del Barrio and Kaila Brooks, MOCADA.http://www.artinoddplaces.org/artist.php?subj=75

c. Also in November, I will be a part of an exhibition on migration in Ansan, South Korea at Community Space Litmus. More details to come.
Let me know if you'll be in Korea. I will email you directions to the space.

Dear Friends - this past spring I began doing shows that combined my usual alien comic hi-jinks and storytelling - one day I was putting together a regular alien comic show, and for some reason I began including stories, without props - I'm sure it was an outgrowth of my two years work with Lucy Sexton on The Talking Show, which we did at PS 122 in the Spring of 2010, and also at The Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood in November - this "hybrid" type of show seemed to go over very well with my audiences, and so I have booked five shows this fall, and each show will be that kind of show - all with different main themes and stories -

the first is at Theatre 80, 80 St. Marks Place, (just West of 1st Ave.), Wednesday, Oct 5, at 8 PM - I'm first on a 4 act bill, which includes the outrageous Shecky Beagelman, one of my favorite performers - the show is a part of The Howl Festival - a month long arts extravaganza at Theatre 80 - all for a good cause: helping downtown performers who need it - the admission is $15 - my piece is called " The Pre-Halloween Show" -

PARK is a multi-cycled, interdisciplinary performance project. In its current cycle, artistic collaborators focus their research on translating trailbuilding practices to the site of an urban landfill, redefining the trail itself as the expressive aftermath of consumption.

PARK performance/installation occurs amidst Freshkills Park Sneak Peak, a rare opportunity to preview the landfill site as it is being transformed into the City's biggest new park on 2,200 acres of hills, creeks, and landfill on Staten Island's west shore. There will be other activities and events that day including public art like The Social Mirror by Mierle Ukeles. There will also be three miles of walking paths and two miles of biking paths, kayak tours, food trucks, and more.

Sunday, October 2
Sneak Peak 11am-4pm

PARK performance/installation 11am-3pm

HOW TO GET THERE (more info at nyc.gov/sneakpeak):
FREE WATER TAXI will operate between Slip 6 at Battery Park in Manhattan and the event site. Water taxis will depart Battery Park at 10am, 12pm and 2pm.

FREE SHUTTLE BUSES will operate regularly between the St. George Ferry Terminal and the event site. Shuttle buses will depart at :15 and :45 past the hour every hour between 10am and 2pm.

BY PUBLIC TRANSIT Take S62 Bus to Victory Blvd and Glen St. Walk down Beresford Ave to Wild Ave.

BY BIKE Enter at the corner of Wild Ave and West Shore Expressway East Service Rd.

BY CAR Parking is available at Wild and Beresford Aves, near the Victory Blvd Exit of the West Shore Expressway and south of the Showplace Entertainment Center

The Sneak Peak performance/installation of PARK is created on-site. It is supported through Freshkills Park's arts program development and iLAND's iLAB Residency Program. Funding is also made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

16. Harley Spiller, FF Alumn, at New York Public Library branches, October 2011-January 2012

Harley Spiller, Senior Educator for The Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate, shares his knowledge of the history of paper money in the United States of America. Covering a swath of continental fiscal history, from Ben Franklin to Ben Bernanke, Spiller leads a hands-on exploration of the physical characteristics of greenbacks. Spiller regales audiences with surprising and true stories, like the one about the bank manager who threw away hundreds of dollars in dumpsters every year - and was rewarded for doing so. Why did our founding fathers selected the color green? You know why there are thirteen olive leaves, thirteen arrows and thirteen layers in the pyramid but why is there a 14th star? Join Spiller on this fascinating exploration of the mysteries behind seemingly-ordinary greenbacks and shares his extraordinary collection of rare and unusual government misprints, offbeat bills, exonumia, and more.
cost: Free